Found 4 pieces of 90% in my front yard
 

with the old metal detector..... 1 1952 quarter, a 1945 dime, 54 dime, and a 42 dime,... sweet

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just buried in the dirt in your front yard? in one location? how old is the house?

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Did you straight up find just 90% coinage or is the yard littered with coins and you're just posting the top finds?

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I found them in seperate locations throughout the yard. Also a ton of wheat pennies.
Also some junk like all metal detecorists know you will find. Many many days of work to find these with all the junk in a modern yard. House was built in 1948.

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Amazingly there was no modern clad besides a couple pennies right next to the driveway. I know I threw these out of the car myself.

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Congrats on doing some good with the detector, mine has only found trash hence it sits in the corner for long stretches- bout due to try it again. HH Mark

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Good find! Another area that turns up at least several 90% for me
is the school yard in my town. Around the slides, the jungle jim and the swings. Usually quarters with an occasional dime and a bunch of ate up pennies. It's amazing how many adults and kids carry 90% in their pockets and drop them by accident. Says to me that there is still alot of 90% floating around out there.

Another good place to metal detect is right after an event in park or any kind of green space where people gather for carnivals, etc. Bleachers that are surrounded by grass have some very good finds!

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Great finds; congrats!

If you haven't done it, check VERY carefully along side driveways and other areas where folks may have parked cars in years past. Many times women and men who pull car keys out of their purse and pockets not infrequently also unwittingly pull out coins. Also check around the outside entrance doors where folks also have pulled out keys to get into the house, garage, outbuilding, etc.

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I never get anything good. I have a friend though who regularly pulls 90% and sterling out of the ground.

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Sweet. Keep swinging that thing.

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Whew, I wonder where I put those. Thanks. Will send you the mailing address. Keep the dime.

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Good find, its amazing what you can unearth, sadly in my garden its all pottery, I just seem to turn up sh*t loads whenever I dig, how so much broken pottery got there I don't know:confused_m:

My thought are that its on the area of some sort of Victorian tip ect

My granddad once found a half crown from the 60's wile digging, always thought it was cool because seen as our family have lived in this house over 50 years it was most likely him that lost it in the first place. lol

There must be literally tones of coins laying around though, this bloke seems to have all the luck,

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"....its amazing what you can unearth, sadly in my garden its all pottery, I just seem to turn up sh*t loads whenever I dig, how so much broken pottery got there I don't know:confused_m:"

If you live in pottery country, All the pieces probably came from an employee who brought many items home and later destroyed them. It was common practice that employees could do this. The same is true of employees who worked in glass mfr companies. Workers used to use materials that were left over at the end of the day, after finishing that day's contract work.

I've bought & sold collectable pottery & glassware for 20 years, and can tell you some real horror stories about finds of broken rare and very scarce items burried in peoples yards in and near Lancaster, Zanesville, Crooksville, Caimbridge, & Newark, Ohio. Many times the pieces are turned up when people dig to plant a garden.

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that could be dangerous when you're mowing the lawn. better get some safety glasses.

i guess if i'm going to be hit by a piece of flying metal, i would prefer silver over lead. but still.

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I detected the back yard and I found amazingly about 25 pennies. All ranging from 1943 ~ 1991. BUT JUST PENNIES.

It was very odd. The house was built in 1949. I thought for sure there would be at least a dime or quarter here or there, but no silver. Two matchbox cars, and a butt load of pennies.

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Well I sold my detector. But I tell you this... one pass of the detector is not enough... in fact, it was about my 20th time in the SAME SPOT, that my detector picked up on a silver quarter about 8 inches deep.

They say a place is never hunted out.

If you find a few wheat pennies, a silver dime or quarter is gotta be there too.

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Dig deeper!! :smile:

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I had a hell of an idea last week. Me and the old lady was watching a show about hundreds of tornadoes and I told her, "you know, these former disaster areas would be great for metal detecting."

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My house was built in 1923 and Ive only found 1 90% coin, a '50 something quarter a few wheats and modern crap. One time before and 1x after I tilled the whole yard and no new finds...although I havent tried it since I got the Cortes but there is no way the wife will let me re-dig after I tilled and re-seeded it this year.

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My house was built in 1971. Was digging out a window well one time, about 6 feet deep I found a Nixon for President plastic key ring.

That pretty much sums up my treasure finding life. Well, I was in the desert in New Mexico one time, walking about and found something emerging from the dirt around a rocky outcropping. What else did I have to do? I was looking for my buddy Edward Abbey. It was a box, I me matey, arghh.

Dug and scraped at it like an animal caught in a trap and finally got it above ground. Someone had buried their dog along with a hash pipe, a baggy of something or another and poetry. Baaadd poetry.

In Utah I was digging through an Anasazi ruins dump and found some human bones (I think, looked like it and I knew that the Anasazi tended to throw their dead into the same place as last nights dinner). Was looking for pottery. There were shards scattered all over the place but nothing complete. Found some corn cobs too. Pretty badas to find 1,000 year old artwork and corncobs. Also found an inlaid petrified tree in a remote canyon.

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Can you stop by and do my yard?? Seriously. fellow. You're a lucky dude. Buy yourself a lottery ticket this week. Methinks it might be time to get a metal detector. :banana:

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Living in a newer town in the west makes for very limited opportunities for silver. I've found more 14K gold jewelry pieces than I have 90% silver coins.

Chris

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Metal Detecting is a GREAT hobby - I've found many silver coins and the pinnacle of my metal detecting finds is a $5 gold in a rusted shut shoe polish tin buried outside of a small mining camp in the Colorado Rockies.

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When I was a kid I went through a pirate fantasy period where I buried treasure with casks and maps an a few silver coins thinking it would be so cool for someone someday to dig them up and think a real bad ass pirate had been in my yard. I buried at least a half dozen of these things over about a year and a half. Maybe a dollar face worth of coins in each one. All silver. That's all there was then.

I didn't really think much of the spending value of those coins because I lived way out in the country and had no place to spend them. The fantasy was worth more than an occasional soda or gum anyway.

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funny this thread should pop up.
my wife and i went detecting again today.
we are checking old home (50's) sites that have been bought by the state to make way for a new Hwy.
last weekend I found 7 pennies No wheats but 3 were copper...lol
My wife found at least Ten and a clad quarter.

Today i found 5 pennies
My wife found 22 pennies and a clad dime and a game token.

Dang kids playin with pennies in the yard no doubt.


maybe tomorrow will be better